The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 2, 2025

Each pod is assigned a clear job-to-be-done, such as improving sales engagement or forecasting accuracy, and takes full ownership of the product development process. Gong, for example, initially targeted U.S. companies selling software valued between $1,000 to $100,000 via Webex, narrowing their potential customer base to just 5,000 people.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. He is now teaching Product Management courses to undergraduate students at Providence College, a role he greatly enjoys combining with his fractional CPO responsibilities.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

The ultimate measure of product-market fit is customer retention. If customers keep coming back, it indicates that your product or service is meeting their needs and providing value. Achieving product-market fit requires patience and iteration.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. 5) market-by-market (or logo-by-logo, if SaaS) comparison where denser/older networks have higher engagement over time (network effects). My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. More in 2020.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This insight is crucial for creating products that resonate and for leading teams effectively. Companies with strong product-market fit can thrive despite internal chaos, while well-run companies may struggle if they don’t solve a real customer need. Operational excellence doesn’t guarantee success.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. First, I observe that product titles and roles vary wildly across companies: there’s no consistency even within a segment. And many executives have never seen good product management.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. These founders have many great qualities, but many times prior product experience isn’t one of them. If they can’t be the professional mentor of the product manager, what is it that they should be doing?

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Finding reference customers is the fastest path to achieving product-market fit. Find 6 to 8 B2B customers, or 15 to 25 B2C customers, and make something they are willing to recommend to other people.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anyone in product for a few years quickly notices no fixed definition of product management from one company to another. Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

He spent the past decade as a VC and product leader helping world-class companies like Faire, Quizlet, and Ibotta accelerate their growth. Source: “How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit” 2. A massive thank-you to Phil for doing the work to put a piece like this together. You know who you are!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

In my opinion, this is absolutely key for a product team. There’s no standard academic path for product people. This is especially true when your product team is composed of different roles such as product management, product marketing, and product design. Here are my 4 key takeaways: 1.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Michael Sippey, VP Product at Medium. Organized by Product School, these events only started in 2018 with San Francisco and quickly gained momentum in the community to expand to four additional U.S.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations and helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. 5) market-by-market (or logo-by-logo, if SaaS) comparison where denser/older networks have higher engagement over time (network effects). My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. More in 2020.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

. : defining and delivering the right products by empowering teams with clarity on problems—problems to be solved either in the product or its promotion. . However, what one organization calls product management, another calls product marketing. for future products and services, Planning.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

Here are the skills you need to be considered a great product manager: Core Competencies. Regardless of industry, a product manager must possess several core competencies to be successful. These may be gained through experience, education, or mentoring. Product road-mapping. Conducting market assessments.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

I keep learning part of learning is having access to different role models different mentors and then being able to look behind the curtain and say oh that’s how they do it right. And Sam was, he became my first mentor right. And indirectly and he kind of like a good mentor made me work super hard.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. So their tagline is outcome based sales enablement, prove the revenue impact of your go to market readiness, coaching and enablement programmes. And we got a nice graph there showing the product.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We made sloppy decisions on hiring because we know we needed someone to fill that role and we’d lower the quality bar so we could get someone in there because we justify to ourselves well, it’s really hard to hire function x here, so this guy I’m sure he’ll be coached to be great.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So the way I’ve been kind of trying to coach some teams and just think it through is if we if you were used to managing a person face to face, and now all of a sudden you’re behind a screen, right? Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So what I mean by this is that you have people as I said who have these skills allow them to uncover an unmet need, to innovate to ensure a product market fit, to stop you building the wrong thing which is massively money saving and also to create products that are such a joy to use that people evangelize about them.

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